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Assignment:

Part 2: Due Date: On or before Sunday, March 15, 2019 by 11:59 pm.

Final Essay:

Having spent some time on reading differing approaches towards the topic of religious experience, compose an essay (multiple paragraphs) that discusses how your perspective on the topic has changed. What is expected is that the essay will engage with 2-3 of the readings in more than a listing of positions or just outright agreement or disagreement. What did one learn from their encounter the readings? Why did some reading succeed and others fail in their arguments? Address the specific arguments. Please avoid just confirming one’s biases, or lamenting about the language in which it was written. These are irrelevant to the topic. In other words, the topic is about what role if any religious experience serves in a life? Please note, this essay is not about your personal religious beliefs. Rather, the issue is about religious beliefs serve a role or purpose in one’s life. Hence, the one could consider the role(s) the different proofs for the existence of God serve. How the problem of evil poses challenges to the issue question. What have been theistic and non-theistic responses to the issue. The length should be minimally 400 words. The essay should include a title relevant to the argument being made, an introductory paragraph that provides a context and a “map” of how the paper will proceed, and a concluding paragraph that “pulls the argument together.” Paraphrasing and/or quoting should be cited using either MLA or APA formatting (which can be found by searching online). A “Works Cited” page should be provided at the end and should be correlated with specific pages being used as opposed to a generalized listing. Use the resources we read in the class. Do not rely exclusively on the videos. Submissions should be sent only as docx or pdf files.

TEXTBOOK: Philosophy: The Search for Truth by Louis Pojman and Lewis Vaughn (Oxford University Press, 2014), 9^th edition, 10^th edition, or 11^th edition. ISBN: 978-0-19-998108-3

ONE READING: Part III-B the selections by Bertrand Russell and William James on the correspondence and pragmatic theories of truth. In Part IV-A, please read the selection by Gilbert Ryle and his “ghost in the machine” criticism of Caqrtesian dualism.

SECOND READING: the selections in II.A by Paul Edwards, David, Hume, and William Rowe